European Chess Union president Boris Kutin writes: "As you remember that
we had already informed federations for European
Individual Chess Championships. European Chess Union is glad to invite
you to Antalya Kemer-Beldibi from 14 to 31 May 2004 for 5th European Individual
Chess Championship. The tournament will be played in the Nautilus Hotel Beldibi
Kemer. As you remember we announced the official regulations in our website
www.eurochess.org . Now we clarified the hotel and venue. Please check information
and send the necessary application files to Organisers as soon as possible.
In the hotel the number of rooms are limited to organisation. Organisers have
made reservation for 100 beds in 30 single and 35 double rooms. this rooms
will be given according to application time. And if there is more request than
100 beds, the second hotel building which is 250 metres behind will be in use.
Till today organisers have got 55 applications. Therefore, we ask all federations
they want to send players to make their application as soon as possible."
Picture Gallery
The Nautilus Hotel Beldibi Kemer
The rooms in the Nautilus
The food at the Turkish buffet
The obligatory pool
The beach in Kemer
The famous Turkish steam baths
Actually they are western saunas, but with a Turkish touch
Evening entertainment
Links
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| Welcome
to Istanbul!
01.06.2003 The
4th European Championship has started in Istanbul and lasts from May
30 until June 14. The men's section has 164 GMs, 31 IMs – and one 13-year-old
girl (guess who!). The prize sum is $192,000, in the women's section
$44,000. We bring you information, links and lots of pictures of the
participants at
work and at play.
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| Action
and pictures from Turkey
06.06.2003 What
is this lovely young lady doing, standing in the water in front of a
racy speedboat? Participating in the 4th European Individual Championships
in Silivri, Turkey, that's what. We bring you results (Aleksandrov leads
in the men's section, Galliamova and Skripchenko among the women), games,
links and lots
of new pictures.
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| Meet
the masters – at the board and at play
08.06.2003 The
European Individual Championships is under way in Silivri, Turkey. After
eight rounds five players tied for first with six points each, followed
by 17 with 5.5 points. We bring you all the games and neccessary links
to follow event, plus a set of great new action pictures directly from
the tournament site in Turkey. Today we start with the men's
section...
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| The
Girls of Silivri
10.06.2003 Meet
the masters – yesterday it was the men's section of the European Individual
Championships in Silivri, Turkey. Now by popular demand we bring you
the women's section with 28 portraits of some of the finest female chess
players Europe has to offer. You will admit that we will all have to
abandon certain age-old prejudices we have held about chess-playing
women.
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| Problems
in Paradise
11.06.2003 The
reports and pictures we have been publishing from the 4th European Individual
Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, have been quite idyllic. But there
is trouble a-brewing. 187 participants have signed a letter of protest
to the President of the European Chess Union and threatened to boycott
the next event. Nigel Short puts it into
perspective...
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| 'Another
day for you and me in Paradise'
11.06.2003 This
morning we published an open letter sent to us by participants of the
European Championships in Silivri, Turkey. A few hours later we received
a message from the President of Turkish Chess Federation Ali Nihat Yazici:
"I have read the news on the site today. Thank you for covering event.
I attach a letter and would be glad if you publish this as an answer."
Here
it is...
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| Great
chess players at play
12.06.2003 Two
days ago we published a large number of pictures of the best male
and female
hard at work during the European
Championships in Silivri, Turkey. At the time we promised you a new
set of pictures, showing the participants at play. Well here they are,
32 new pictures of Europe's finest, chess like you have never
seen it before...
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